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But art and exploration come at a hefty price. >> for all of the beauty and creativity we think now of the renaissance, a lot of that work was financed by corruption. you want the sistine chapel? the sistine chapel was paid for by bribery. a lot of that beauty, the flip side of it was brutality. >> the church is very human, made up of sinful people who are striving to live a life according to the spirit and yet we fall. and big men with big titles fal fall. >> we always have to remember this history of the papacy is not always a good history. >> narrator: behind the iconic images of the 15th a...

Time in european history. but the advancements of art and exploration come at a hefty price. >> all of the beauty and creativity that we think of now as the renaissance, a lot of that work was financed by corruption. you want the sistine chapel? the sistine chapel is paid for by bribery. a lot of that beauty, the flip side of it was brutality. >> the church was very human, made up of sinful people who are striving to live a life according to the spirit, and yet we fall. and big men with big titles fall. >> we always have to remember that there's history, the papacy is not always a good history...

But the advancements of art and exploration come at a hefty price. >> all of the beauty and creativity that we think of now as the renaissance, a lot of that work was financed by corruption. you want the sistine chapel? the sistine chapel is paid for by bribery. a lot of that beauty, the flip side of it was brutality. >> the church was very human, made up of sinful people who are striving to live a life according to the spirit, and yet we fall. and big men with big titles fall. >> we always have to remember that there's history, the papacy is not always a good history. >> behind the iconic ima...